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Agent instructions

CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md — the files that tell your agents how to work in a project. When an agent does something baffling, the answer is often sitting in one of them.

Open any Space to read the ones in play for that project, rendered as one document rather than a stack of per-file cards, because that’s how the agent sees it.

These are read-only in the app, deliberately.

Editing a repo file from a phone means a change with no diff and no review, landing outside git. So instead: highlight the passage that’s wrong, say what’s wrong with it, and hand your notes to an agent as a new task. The edit arrives as a commit like any other, with a diff you can read in Changes.

It’s the slower-looking path that turns out to be faster, because you don’t later find a mystery edit nobody can trace.

A project has one checkout and any number of worktrees, each with its own files on disk — so “the project’s CLAUDE.md” is really a question about a directory. Pounce leads with the repository root, where the committed context lives, and offers the worktrees as alternatives.

A project with no instructions at all gets an offer to create one. Pounce suggests CLAUDE.md, since Claude Code is the default agent — both names are conventions rather than standards, and the file is created through an agent, so it lands in git properly.